I'll Be Waiting

Part of It

        But that's the part of it i always liked. He adjusted himself to beams falling, and then no more of them fell, and he adjusted himself to them not falling.

Dashiell Hammett
Maltese Falcon
1930

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Maltese Falcon
1940

In the Right

                                        Let life happen to you. Believe me; life is in the right, always.

Rainer Maria Rilke

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Pennies from Heaven
1981

More Hannes Killian

Coming Off Shift #12

Fallen Angel

Apple Pie, Ice Cream

De Gens Sans Importance

The Game

Long Memory

Killer Inside Me (2010)

Man on the Tracks

Terminal

Out of the Past

Last Stop in Yuma County

They Drive By Night

The Vanishing (1993)

Vicki

Hell Drivers

Duel

Twin Peaks

Many Like Me

      Smoking comforts ordinary men, but i'm not an ordinary man. There aren't many like me left. And it's a good thing for the world that there aren't.

Charles Willeford

Sideswipe

1987

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Machine in Ward Eleven

https://www.mulhollandbooks.com/books/charles-willefords-portrait-of-the-artist-as-a-used-car-salesman/

Make Deals

You can't make deals with a dead man Jeff.

Let's get out of here.
There's someplace left to go ?
I think so.
You're running the show now.

Out of the Past (1947)
Director - Jacques Tourneur

Browns Requiem

            I called Irwin, my driver, and told him to meet me at my place in an hour and to bring coffee - there was work on the line. He was grumpy until i mentioned money. I hung up and looked out my window. It was getting light. Hollywood, below me, was filling up with hazy sunshine. I felt a slight tremor ; part caffeine, part Beethoven, part a last passage of night air. I felt my life was going to change.

Brown's Requiem
James Ellroy
1981

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Wilshire and La Brea
Los Angeles 1937
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Jake

           I was trying to keep someone from being hurt. I ended up making sure she was hurt.

J.J Gittes -
Chinatown
1974

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Marco Diaz

Ego and the Emotions

        "Not by well-oiled, soulless machines, but by men, the best and most efficient of whom suffered from unpredictable aberrations of the ego and the emotions.”

— W. R. Burnett (1899-1982), The Asphalt Jungle, 1949.

Even Bad Luck is Some Kind of Luck #163

Body of Heat

Odds Against Tomorrow

Reservoir Dogs

Killers Kiss

They Shoot Horses Don't They ?

Murder My Sweet

Nihgtmare Alley

The Killing

Night of the Hunter

Twin Peaks

Touch of Evil

Angel Heart

Hoffa

Postman Always Rings Twice (1946)

Hot Spot

Treasure Sierra Madre

Bad Day at Black Rock

Woman on the Run

Odette (1950)